As part of UNESCO's Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2019, CILIP ILG is coordinating three events with Library and Information departments at three UK universities.

At this event at RGU, Aberdeen, Jacqueline Geekie will talk on case studies using the ILG definition of Information Literacy and Dina Martzoukou will talk on children's information and digital literacy.

Dina Martzoukou

Teaching Excellence Fellow, The Robert Gordon University will speak on:

‘Introducing Maddie is Online: Young children’s digital literacy, resilience and safety in everyday life’

An increasing amount of research scholarship has emerged over the last few years with the context of education that emphasises the need for developing digitally literate young people within a technological and on-line environment that is constantly changing and evolving. Young people are often perceived savvy with technology but they spent most of their time online for “informal communication, leisure and entertainment activities” and “many texts that they encounter are from outside of school or family and are often formed around popular or consumer culture” (Gibson and Smith, 2018). There is need to educate young children for the digital society on the basis of “civic online reasoning”, defined as “the ability to judge the credibility of information that floods young people’s smartphones, tablets, and computers” (Wineburg et al., 2016) as well as on the basis of digital resilience and safety. Within this context, the presentation will discuss the diverse challenges and opportunities created for children in the online everyday life context, presenting ‘Maddie is Online’, an open educational cartoon resource for information literacy and digital resilience, aimed at schoolchildren (9-12 years old). The presentation will address how libraries can play a key role in developing children’s information and digital literacy in collaboration with primary schools, families and communities.

Gibson, P.F. & Smith, S. 2018. Digital literacies: preparing pupils and students for their information journey in the twenty-first century. Information and Learning Science, 119 (12), pp.733-742, https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-07-2018-0059

Wineburg, Sam and McGrew, Sarah and Breakstone, Joel and Ortega, Teresa. 2016. Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/fv751yt5934

Jacqueline Geekie

Information Literacy and Learning Librarian and Public Libraries Rep on the CILIP Information Literacy Group

‘What the ILG did next’

The new definition of Information Literacy was launched in April 2018 and the CILIP Information Literacy Group have been collecting case studies of people and organisations using the definition in practical situations. This will be an update on what has been done with the definition since its launch.

The session will also be recorded - if you would like to be sent a link to the recording after the event, please select the "recording" ticket option. There will be some time for networking with your fellow professionals before heading home